Nearly every traffic accident caused by driver error – up to 90 per cent of all crashes – could be eliminated if existing intelligent transportation technologies were implemented in vehicles and on roads, say experts at IEEE, the world's largest technical professional association. These include electronics and computing technologies such as in-vehicle machine vision and sensors to detect drowsy drivers, lane departure warning systems, and vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications for s
Mike Dreznes, executive vice president at the International Road Federation (IRF) discusses road safety for work zone areas. Work zones around the world can create significant congestion and can cost society billions of dollars. Estimates in the United States alone include approximately 87,600 work zone crashes involving 37,500 injuries that result in 482 million lost hours, valued at approximately US$6.5 billion. When considering these numbers worldwide, it becomes clear that work zone safety and work zone
The American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s (ARTBA) is holding an event focusing on the impact of driverless cars and other smart technologies on US transportation. The event will see discussions on how these innovations could impact on the design and construction of highways and bridges. Executives from IBM, Microsoft, the Automobile Manufacturers Alliance, public and private sector transportation construction professionals, and other thought leaders will explore these issues on October 28th
IRF Expands Operations in South East Europe
Close to 300 delegates, including representatives from key Bulgarian road agencies, took part in the 2nd Road Safety & Innovation Forum on May 15th at the joint invitation of the International Road Federation, EuroRAP and the Bulgarian Branch Association for Road Safety.
“We had designed this event with the idea that countries such as Bulgaria, currently lagging behind in meeting their traffic injury reduction targets, could seize technological enablers that
